The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16

employed in Hatch's bedstead mandatory,
had three fingers and the thumb Of his left
hand badly torn by a circular saw last
wanted in this village.
West Topsham.
REV. MIR. PRINGLE from Boston preached
a very interesting sermon at Union church
last Sunday morning. - A select school
commenced last Monday. Mr.. Pratt from
Plainfield is the teacher. - Mr.. Book,
the peddler, was obliged to stay here from
Friday until Monday, in consequence of
bad roads. 60 There was an alarm of
fire about eleven o'clock last Friday night,
but it proved to be only the burning out of
a chimney in the Tabor & Collins store. 1t
illumined the whole village, and had not
the buildings been covered with snow
there certainly would have been a big
fire. - Sylvester Tillotson got one hand
severely bitten while parting some fighting
dogs last week. DR.. Watson dressed the
wounds, and 1t is hoped nothing serions
will result from the bite. - Stephen
Davis is quite i'll and fears are entertained
that he will not live long
Williamstown.
AN American humorst says: "You will
find throughout the South wherever have
been, general tendency to warmer weather
than you obtain in the North" The monthly
weather reports, which are kindly sent us
from Alabama by j. ID. White, have a gen.
eral tendency" towards confirming this
statement The report for January last was
as follows: Average at 81 30 A. M, 4' and a
fraction above zero; average at 600 P. NJ,
44o and fraction. The extremes of morn
ing temperatures were 12o and $50; the ex-
tremes of afternoon were 1872 and 64o. The
coolest day, January 2, the temperature
was 12o in the morning and 1872 above in the
afternoon. The ground was covered with
snow January 8, 6 and Z which disappeared
January Mr.. White reports blowing on
seven days of the month and sowing oats on
two days. AT his old home here the mer-
curry played in a much lower key, the plow-
ing was Of the snow and the sowing was of
wood and coal in our burners. But with
everything in the scale, who would venture
to decide that Vermont was behind her sis
ter state in advantages? - Rufus Walk
er's family has recently gone to Moline, ILL.,,
to live, making four families from Williams
town in that busy manufacturing city Mr..
Walker has two sons in business in Kansas.
- A member of the grange permits us
to make some extracts from a recent report
of the secretary of the order, Hiram Daven-
port, made for the benefit of the new men,
bers. The Williamstown grange was or
ganized February %, 1874, with forty-nine
worthy master. In the next three months
ffty-three new members were added and in
1875 eleven more were taken in. From that
time until 1886 there were only five addi-
tons to the order. In the past year there
have been fourteen additions, making a
total of one hundred thirty-two. The mas
ters of the grange have been III. ID. Abbott,
George Denny, Presby Hopkins, John Farm
ham and c. U. Lathrop. The secretary
records that the lowest point in the decline
of interest was reached March Is, 1885, when
only eight persons were present at the meet
ing-just the number, by the way, that out
rode the flood. 1t is said that the grange,
which includes some of our worthiest fam
lilies, was never in better working order
than at the present time, and the meetings
are generally well attended, The grange is
also in a prosperous condition financially.
Good music by an efficient choir and essays
and discussions of high order have been
characteristics of the meetings. - Do
you believe in the mind-cure?' was the in
quiry made of us by an out-of-town friend
recently, because of having itemiZed some
cases under this method of treatment. Per-
| sonally we know too little of the science of
| it to say intelligently we have or have not
any sort of faith in it. Some facts" as
they have been given to us, have seemed
worthy to be published as facts, whatever
the causes. The New York Weekly Tribune
of January IL contained an editorial, A
Dream Fulfilled Itself" in which it COM
ments wisely on :" the extent and in
tiuences of dominant ideas upon the ply
steal condition " that we could wish every
one might read it, The subject seems to be
forcing itself more and more upon the minds
of scientific thinkers and so is worthy of
study by us common people. - H.
Illustrative of the power of will over a sick
body, some one was telling us the other day
of a man in professional life who is making
most honorable record for himself. He
was at one time a bed-ridden invalid and
sick for years. He finally brought to bear
upon his sick body an invincible determine
ton to conquer its invaldism and sue
ceeded, and to-day he is spoken of as an
instance of what will can do in sickness.
- short time ago we recorded some
of the " ins " of Vermont farming. We now
| give some of the " outs " of Western farm
ing, as furnished us by facetous friend
living in a rich section of Indiana, who
went from town life to that of the country
not very many years ago: " | was in the
sheep business" he writes, till quite re-
Gently. / have had lots of experience too,
and am not quite sheepless, as | have one
left. When | came out on to the farm |
was advised to go into the sheep business.
! They told me to buy some old ewes, and in
a short time they would double up; then l
could sell the old ones and keep the lambs.
| Well, | bought old ones, for sure, and /
bought just in time, too, for if had waited
| till spring the man of whom | bought would
have been out of the sheep business. And
they did double up nearly all of them
they doubled up and died. / raised more
sheep than any other man in the country
! that winter. | raised them every morning,
so they could get to their feed. Was you
ever in the bee business? | was. / was the
happy possesser of four good swarms
of bees-I mean good-sized swarms. i
| have failed so far to form the acquaintance
of right-down good bee. Mine seemed to
think good deal of me. They used to fol-
low me, even to the house, when l went
around the hives. And let me say right
here that You never catch them asleep. II
you will take my advice, don't catch them
at all. We bee-men all went out of the bee
business last winter. They froze up solid.
/ am getting started again; have one swarm
now. | was looking after their welfare the
| other day. They saw me coming and sent
| out a committee of one to meet me-and we
met. / don't know how the swarm got the
impression my hearing was not good, for il
is good. AT any rate the committee seated
himself in my ear-and he sat down hard
| tell you. | relieved the committee and
went TO the house, and my wife had me
wear an onion in my ear to relieve me
When / was young in the bee business
went out to examine my bees and opened a
hive without smoking them first. While
was undoing the hive they all got ready
and as | lifted the top off the whole party
jumped on to me. | had a warm reception
truly, that time. For week following ]
saw out of one eye, heard with one ear and
breathed through one nostril" - Mrs.
| Laurinda Watson Graves, widow of the
late George w. Graves of East Randolph
and daughter of the late Mr., David Watson
of this place. died January 2, at the home
of one of her daughters in Granville, Ohio